COVID 19
In response to advice to us regarding the COVID-19 outbreak the College campus is now closed to students and all visitors as of 6pm on Thursday 19 March. Yet our aim remains - to equip 21st Century disciples. Therefore we will continue to facilitate the most effective learning we can for our students during this time. We are moving teaching online for our undergraduate and postgraduate students and will resource and support this through a staff team working and connecting remotely. There i
Seeds.
Seeds. is a weekly series of stories about the interesting and diverse people who study, work & visit the College. These stories of growth are created with the hope of sharing the work of God through personal testimonies of real people. Jordan "I'm preparing and I'm studying and I'm doing things to hopefully help people I haven't even met yet." Excitement about future possibilities can distract us from what God is doing now. Jordan, a se
Look Past the Headline
Dr. Cindy Brown urges us to listen to and love the world as God loves the world. As we interact with the news, let us look past the headlines to where the Spirit wants to bring the Gospel to meet the needs of the world and move past ‘hashtag’ trends to a deeper understanding as people of the Kingdom of God.
Context is Everything - lessons from Nepal
Peter McDowell is our new Lecturer in Missiology, so he took a moment out of his preparing for teaching for us to ask him a few questions. So how are you? I'm good, it’s good to be here. It feels like my wife and I have done a lot of different things in a lot of different places, but at each point we look at what’s coming next. For me, teaching has always been a vocation. I like sharing with groups, and helping people (and myself) learn, grow and develop. So this feels
Chapel Tuesday
One of the ways the ways the College aims to create community, encourage worship, and introduce speakers with a variety of backgrounds in ministry and mission work is through Chapel each Tuesday. Chapel Tuesday is a series to give a glimpse into this special time each week. Passover Celebration Come Let us Adore Him Mission for God's Glory What is the Reward of Prayer? Is It Really God Leading?
Announcing our new Principal
Belfast Bible College are delighted to announce the appointment of our new Principal, Helen Warnock. Helen has been the General Director of Scripture Union Northern Ireland since 2003 and worked in Christian ministry in Northern Ireland for the last 20 years. Our Board of Directors carried out a comprehensive search to find the right person to lead the College forward, to continue our strong links with the local Church, Missions and Ministries as we seek to offer quality, relevant Theo
The Foreigner
Kill the Foreigner? Love the Foreigner? What should our attitude be towards 'the foreigner’? Living in Belfast as an Englishman with a German wife and two Northern Irish children, I often feel that I occupy a strange position between ‘local’ and ‘foreigner’. This is not to complain in any way about the hospitality that I have received here, quite the opposite! However, the question of how we respond to the foreigner has intensified in recent years with the in
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Chapel Tuesday
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One of the ways the ways the College aims to create community, encourage worship, and introduce speakers with a variety of backgrounds in ministry and mission work is through Chapel each Tuesday. Chapel Tuesday is a series to give a glimpse into this special time each week.
Passover Celebration
Come Let us Adore Him
Mission for God's Glory
What is the Reward of Prayer?
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Tio Developments
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New Development
The Centre for Intellectual Disability and Ministry at Belfast Bible College is moving into a new phase of development. Many of you have followed its progress and supported its development since its launch in 2015.
Over the past two years, the Centre has extended our courses for adults with intellectual disabilities to three terms. Training conferences for churches on ‘Inclusion and Support’ have now been presen
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Easter Devotional
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Good Friday – Jesus led to the Cross
...the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many – Matthew 20:28
Friday, the day of the cross. After being betrayed with a kiss, Jesus was beaten and mocked and left alone in the Praetorium, wearing a crown of thorns. And yet Jesus had come for this. He had been preparing his whole life for this moment where he wou
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Discovery Day
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Come and meet us, the College will be open for a Discovery Day on Tuesday the 28th February. There'll be a chance to have a tour of the college, tell us what courses you might be interested in and hear a presentation of what we have to offer. You'll be very welcome, if you need directions please click here.
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A world without Down Syndrome
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The telling of our collective human story requires the inclusion and dynamic of subjectivity – of personal and often passionate views. Objectivity cannot be the only respected narrative if we want society to progress humanly. We also need to hear the benevolent bias of human beings living in constant closeness to people whom competitive societies might not value. At times we must lean far out over the bow to restore balanc
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The Beginning
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In the Bible ‘the Beginning’ has great significance; we learn about the beginning of the world, the Word, and we learn how prophets and disciples began their ministry. So as a College we place a special emphasis on ‘the Beginning’ of studies for all students. We begin as we mean to continue, focused on God, His Word, and His Work in this world.
We invite all students, their families, friends and church leaders to
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Halfway House Drama
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In partnership with Contemporary Christianity we will be hosting "Halfway House" a play by Philip Orr.
The play is set in 1966 and is a converstation between two women from different communities who take refuge from a snowstorm in a pub called the Halfway House on the Glenshane Pass. 1966 is also half way between 1916 and the present day so offers an interesting perspective on history and provokes us to
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Announcing our new Principal
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Belfast Bible College are delighted to announce the appointment of our new Principal, Helen Warnock. Helen has been the General Director of Scripture Union Northern Ireland since 2003 and worked in Christian ministry in Northern Ireland for the last 20 years. Our Board of Directors carried out a comprehensive search to find the right person to lead the College forward, to continue our strong links with the local Church, Missions and Min
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Sabbath-making as Soul-keeping
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Over the course of a busy semester at Belfast Bible College the pressure from assignments and exams, administration, teaching, homes, health, placements, and worries is felt not only in our souls and minds but also our bodies. Now and again we have phases in life when we just plain get tired, and we need a break from pressing labours. But sometimes, if we’re honest, we reach this place less because of this or that particular o
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Re-reading well known biblical stories
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There are some stories in the bible that we know very well, having heard them from Sunday school onwards. This familiarity can sometimes be a problem, as we can lose the ability to be challenged or inspired by them.[1] How do we read such stories well?[2] As an example, let us think about a very well-known story: David and Goliath in 1 Samuel 17.
One key question to ask in reading the story is why David acted the way that he did. He is introdu